THERESA May will, against the odds, reach one landmark next week. By Thursday, she will have become the 35th longest-serving premier, overtaking one Gordon Brown who survived in 10 Downing Street for two years and 319 days.

THIS NEWSPAPER made a promise to its readers more than three years ago that no favour would be given to either the remain nor the leave cause ahead of the referendum afforded to the British public regarding membership of the European Union on 23rd June, 2016.

The votes have been cast and the results won’t be known until Sunday, but already one thing is crystal clear about this election – it has been a resounding victory for Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party.

The Government’s continuing inaction on the country’s social care funding crisis – and its repeated delays to the publication of a strategy intended to tackle the issue – has caused consternation for those working in the sector and the families that have direct experience of the current problems besetting the system.

When Theresa May told Conservative MPs in March that she was willing to resign as Prime Minister earlier than she intended so the country could be led by someone else in the next phase of Brexit negotiations, she made clear her determination to pass her Withdrawal Agreement Bill in Parliament before her departure.

It’s not my intention to shock or scandalise anyone by what I’m about to say, being a priest, and I’m certainly not for a moment suggesting that we shouldn’t support charities and charitable causes, but…

We stand at the edge of great change. Whatever your views on Brexit, there is no doubt that leaving the European Union will bring both challenges and opportunities. And that change will significantly impact upon those regions, including here in Yorkshire, which have benefited the most from European funding.

There have been many unexpected consequences from the country’s vote to leave the European Union back in 2016 - and now a boost in UK manufacturing output helping our region’s firms is among them in the short-term at least.

IT was perhaps the cruellest of ironies that as Theresa May stood at the Dispatch Box extolling the virtues of leadership just hours after her Government enacted one of the most shameful derelictions of leadership seen in recent times.